Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain :  the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 / 
edited by Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham. 
 - xv, 255 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : politics and design in post-war Britain / Patrick J. Maguire -- Britain can make it and the history of design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Patriotism, politics and production / Patrick J. Maguire -- The politics of persuasion : state, industry and good design at the Britain can make it exhibition / Jonathan M. Woodham -- 'Fabrics for everyman and for the elite' / Mary Schoeser -- Moving forwards but looking backwards : the dynamics of design change in the early post-war pottery industry / Graham M. McLaren -- Good design by law : adapting utility furniture to peacetime production : domestic furniture in the Reconstruction Period 1946-56 / Judy Attfield -- Industrial design : aesthetic idealism and economic reality / Patrick J. Maguire -- Putting the industrial into design : early problems facing the council of industrial design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Introduction to the documents / Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham -- Locating Britain Can Make It; cultural propaganda and industrial realism; the outlook of manufacturing industry; documentation and commentary. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0718501411 9780718501419 0718500733 9780718500733 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96051465 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrial design--Great Britain--Exhibitions<br/>Industrial design--History--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T183.G72  / D47 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>745.20941